[kdepim-users] mbox folder is an maildir folder

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 15 June 2008, Michael wrote:
> Hello thanks
>
> for the answer - I guess I have found the reason for the "issue"
> though no real solution.
>
> > > I like to export some mails to an other account and though that
> > > the easiest way would be to create an mbox folder, move the
> > > relevant mails to this and user the mbox file to import it on the
> > > other account.
> >
> > I don't understand. What does ls -sl show after you have
> > copied/moved a message to the mboxtest folder?
>
> I created a folder as mbox format and then subfolders since I like to
> move a complete "subtree" to an other account.
>
> All is fine as long as I copie mails to the toplevel mbox folder.
> When I do a cat on the mbox file I see the mails.
>
> But when I copie the files to mbox subfolders I get a size of zero
> for the file though it is copied and visible in KMail. a cat on the
> toplevel named mbox file results in "empty" file.

Of course, the toplevel named mbox file is empty if you didn't copy any 
messages into the toplevel folder. You have probably missed the file 
system folder (aka directory) .mboxtest.directory which contains the 
subfolders of the mboxtest folder.


Regards,
Ingo
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